Allocating Resources

Allocating Resources
Complete the following table, providing a description of the criteria and potential ethical concerns.
Criteria Description Ethical Concerns
Personal Criteria These criteria present personal values and choices when making a decision. As an illustration, one may stop to seek life-sustaining medical interventions. As a result, the patient may prevent a life-prolonging case. In many cases, this can be compared to a patient requires a doctor to perform euthanasia. Some people have raised ethical concerns about reasons why euthanasia should be allowed or not. Some of the people argue that euthanasia should be allowed because it is a way of releasing a patient from the pain they go through. It is considered as death with dignity.
People who are against euthanasia argue on religious grounds and the law.
There are countries with laws supporting euthanasia whereas other nations discourage this practice.
Socio-medical Criteria These criteria are similar to social media criteria, but socio-medical criteria provide an overall social good. An example of socio-medical criteria is age-based decision-making. The old people are always not given a priority when they seek medical intervention because they are considered as uninformed generation and will be a wastage of resources investing in them.
Medical Criteria In the medical criteria, there are certain medical decisions which are being made limited to certain people due to inadequate resources. There are times when patients are denied services because they can no longer be supported through a life support system.

These decisions made by the hospital may negatively affect the patient’s relatives. The hospital will be caught up in keeping the patient under life support system or continue with the life support system.
Social Criteria The criteria give treatment preferences to those people who are considered to be important in the society. There are cases where people are being treated differently. This means that there are people of great economic stature in the society. The doctors will give more attention to people who have money and are essential to the community but will ignore ordinary people. Hospitals should be one of the places where people should be treated equally because of all lives matter. The only difference that exists is in resources. This means that rich people have more money than poor.